I stayed for 20 years, knowing from the honeymoon onward that I wanted out! I tried to talk to him about separation and divorce from early on, but heard threats of throwing me out into the street "with nothing," and then of taking our daughter from me, and I truly believed him. When she left for college, I found a ratty furnished trailer and moved into it. I let him write the divorce settlement himself, keeping all his investments and inheritances. Just so happy to finally be free.
Patty